Family Pressure to be Thin and Parental Expectations of Perfectionism in Relation to Disordered Eating and Body Dissatisfaction in Young Adult Women
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- February 26, 2019
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Alvarez, Alexandra
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Abstract
- The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between family pressure to be thin, parental expectations of perfectionism, and their interaction on disordered eating attitudes and behaviors in a college-aged female sample. At Time 1, a sample of 441 undergraduate women completed the study measures through an online survey and 237 women of these women completed the measures again one year later. As hypothesized, the results indicated that concurrently, family pressure to be thin and parental expectations of perfectionism were each significantly positively associated with broad eating pathology, dietary restraint, binge eating, and body dissatisfaction. Additionally, the interaction of family pressure to be thin and parental expectations of perfectionism was found to be a significant indicator of current levels of broad eating pathology and body dissatisfaction, but not of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors one year later. These findings support the dual pathway model proposed by Stice (1994) and suggest that families are one of the critical sociocultural pressures that influence women’s body image and eating pathology in young adulthood.
- Date of publication
- spring 2015
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- Funding: None
- Advisor
- Bardone-Cone, Anna
- Degree
- Bachelor of Arts
- Honors level
- Highest Honors
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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- 33
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